/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15558945]

>looking at recipes online
>you have to scroll through the writer's entire life story and more before they even show the recipe

[Anonymous No.15558962]

>>15558945
>buy a cookbook
>have the recipe 24/7 without skimming through webpages like a fag

[Anonymous No.15558979]

>>15558945
It's because of SEO

[Anonymous No.15558990]

>>15558962
>write my own cookbook
>don't have to skim or pay like a retarded faggot

[Anonymous No.15559004]

>>15558945
>Recipe is peppered throughout writer's entire life story

[Anonymous No.15559009]

>>15558945
I've never seen that. Stop using google, it's garbage.

[Anonymous No.15559031]

>>15559004

THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE WORST

>then you’ll want to put it in the mixer, which reminds me of the time I went to India they did it by hand blah blah blah
SHUT THE FUCK UP

[Anonymous No.15559047]

books are for reading not cooking

[Anonymous No.15559168]

Can blog moms be trusted to have legit recipes or is it just another form of attention whoring?

[Anonymous No.15559178]

>>15558945
Just click the go to recipe button.

[Anonymous No.15559190]

>>15558945
>a pinch of salt
>a dash of oil
>use upper medium slight heat
>cook until desired color is achieved
>and now to the most important ingredient, love ;)

[Anonymous No.15559231]

i'm making baked potato, baked apples+brown sugar. and bacon.

[Anonymous No.15559239]

>>15558945
You can't take two minutes out of your day to read the context of the recipe you're getting for free you selfish self entitled child? You ungrateful little shit, do you treat your mother like this too?

[Anonymous No.15559431]

>>15559239
My mom doesn't write shitty food blogs peppered with video ads.

[Anonymous No.15559461]

>>15558945
>recipe doesn't list how much of each ingredient you're supposed to use
guess im gonna just have to figure it out on my own

[Anonymous No.15559505]

>recipe calls for kosher salt

[Anonymous No.15560365]

>>15558945
>not using ctrl+f with words like tsp, tbsp or 1
Guaranteed to get you almost straight to the recipe

[Anonymous No.15560393]

>jump to recipe button
>jumps to "click here to see recipe" button
>"click here" button takes me to part of recipe, only a few ingredients shown
>different click here to see full recipe
>you must subscribe to this site for a monthly fee to see the full recipe

[Anonymous No.15560399]

>recipe doesn't actually tell you all the steps you have to do to get it right
>you have to actually read through their wall of texts and pics to find where they actually say what you're supposed to do at certain steps

[Anonymous No.15560708]

>>15559168
It's attention whoring. They can make "How to make tea" go for six pages.

[Anonymous No.15560724]

>>15559505
ALL the recipes call for Kosher salt. When the blog moms steal a recipe, they add the word Kosher to every salt reference in the text. Same for Organic and all oil must be olive oil. If the recipe calls for deep frying, they write six paragraphs explaining how traditionally it's deep fried, but today we will bake it with a splash of olive oil.

[Anonymous No.15560737]

will it ever be topped?

[Anonymous No.15562403]

>>15558990
Based

[Anonymous No.15562433]

>>15558945
PageRank is the reason. If you are using Jewgle to find recipes, you will not find any that don't include a gigantic blogpost. Not writing your recipe like a western woman punishes your site, and you will not show up in search results.

[Anonymous No.15562539]

>>15559168
You have to fine tune your sense for it but some are pretty good. Don't blindly trust any of them though.

>>15559190
Substitutes for this love ingredient?

[Anonymous No.15562546]

>>15562539
>Substitutes for this love ingredient?
bitterness and regret

[Anonymous No.15562552]

>>15559031
Why did you space the text like that? Looks weird.

[Anonymous No.15563864]

>>15558945
Allrecipes.com anything with good reviews over 1000 times

[Anonymous No.15563938]

>>15558945
I want to suck her armpits.

[Anonymous No.15563948]

>>15558945
>you have to scroll through the writer's entire life story
Stop using faggoty blogs as a source for recipes.
Problem solved.

[Anonymous No.15564394]

>>15558945
when is someone gunna make a cooking/recipe website that doesnt do this shit?
I just want plain text on a plain, pictureless site, no crazy fucking UI.

5 bullet points in concise fucking text telling me when to add what to the pot.
Maybe a search bar at the top, that's it.

Basically Google, but a cooking site.
Realistically that's how google got so popular. before them every fucking search engine looked like Yahoo.co.jp.

[Anonymous No.15564424]

>>15562433
This. It's usually SEO bullshit as much as it is legitimate.

>>15564394
Really, you just have to not use Google. In practice though, most people are so used to the main search engine providers that they'll endure the inefficiencies rather than relearn how to search online again.
DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Yandex are all alternatives that are at least in the same ballpark of accuracy/precision as Google, though all have caveats.

[Anonymous No.15564497]

>>15559190
>>a pinch of salt
this, "salt to taste" is the bane of any otherwise good recipe. If I'm making meatballs I don't want to have to cook a small amount to check for salt, especially since "to taste" is a bullshit concept anyways. No baking recipe says to salt the dough "to taste" because there's a proper amount of salt that should go into any recipe, but the author is too lazy or incompetent or cowardly to include it in the fucking recipe.

[Anonymous No.15564508]

>>15558945
You're scum, op

You get shit for free and you complain

[Anonymous No.15564515]

>>15564394
It's called Spending Money

[Anonymous No.15564525]

>>15564497
You should already know how much salt you like in a given amount of food

It's not hard and it stops utter trash like you from complaining about "oohhh too much salt waa waa"

[Anonymous No.15564610]

>>15564525
Not him, but that only applies after the second-third time around making it. The taste of salt isn't some set amount per a certain mass of food, at least for most folks.

I think the only item I consistently know to deviate from a recipe is garlic, because the taste is more consistent, and usually I double the amount the recipe calls for.

[Anonymous No.15565220]

>>15564497
>If I'm making meatballs I don't want to have to cook a small amount to check for salt
Microwave a little lump of the mixture, dingus. The point of salting to taste is that there is going to be some irregularity in your procedure/ingredients (or a difference in your taste) that will demand more or less salt than the recipe writer may have used. Start seasoning to taste and it'll become a pretty automatic skill when you cook all sorts of shit. Baking is a different matter where precision matters a lot more and you should be weighing ingredients anyways.

[Anonymous No.15565231]

Jfc are you honestly complaining about scrolling for a recipe?

[Anonymous No.15565234]

>>15560737
Women really will do anything for attention.

[Anonymous No.15565270]

>>15565231
t blog writer

[Anonymous No.15565765]

I think we should start copy/pasting good recipes without the bullshit into images we can post here.

[Anonymous No.15565945]

>>15559505
Holy shit this

[Anonymous No.15565966]

>>15559505
>into the oven it goes

[Anonymous No.15565999]

>>15565765
I've been doing this with various pastebin documents

[Anonymous No.15566788]

This used to annoy the hell out of me, but it doesn't anymore; oftentimes the wall of text adds context to the recipe (e.g. its origin, ingredients you can swap), and if it really is just a story about hubby and the kids then you know to avoid the blog because the recipes are probably trash that have been slightly altered from Food Network or old cookbook recipes.
>>15563864
Allrecipes has a lot of highly-rated trash because it caters to flyover home cooks who use ketchup or soft drinks as an all-purpose secret ingredient. The quality is all over the place.
>>15564394
Cookpad is extremely bare-bones and seems to be used in a number of different countries (i.e. if you translate the recipe name into its native language and search it on cookpad, there's a good chance you'll get something authentic).

[Anonymous No.15566836]

>>15559190
>use upper medium slight heat
have stove knobs been standardized yet? can we just say "turn your stove on to 9" instead of this bullshit?

[Anonymous No.15566847]

>>15558945
Why is this shit so common? I've even seen it where there was a link to the recipe at the end of their memoir

[Anonymous No.15566906]

>>15558945
>looking at recipes online
>you have to scroll through the writer's entire life story and more before they even show the recipe
>recipe is scattered within one of the paragraphs and types out the numbers with letters so it blends in even harder

[Anonymous No.15566999]

>>15566847
Four reasons:
* Search engine optimization
* More places to add affiliate links
* Sometimes it's helpful for the dish to be explained for various reasons
* A lot of recipe bloggers get their start on social media and have an audience that likes to learn more about their lives

[Anonymous No.15567009]

>>15558945
Google's adsense require a minimum amount of words before you can monetize your blog entry and they promote it

[Anonymous No.15567015]

>>15558945
>Ingredients list
>Now we add this ingredient that wasn't on the list

[Anonymous No.15567033]

>>15558945
>Now we add a spoon of sugar
>Adds 3

[Anonymous No.15567066]

>>15563864
>High ranked recipe
>Make it
>Tastes like shit
>Read it again to figure out how I fucked up
>Did everything right
>Scroll down
>Every single comment complaining that it tastes like shit

[Anonymous No.15568436]

>>15562552
He's a redditor. They need to press space twice over there in order to make a new line.

[Anonymous No.15569152]

>>15560737
Looking forward to a "shortly after the trump insurrection attempt on the capital" recipe

[Anonymous No.15569302]

>>15566788
>that pic
that's pretty much exactly what I want from a proper cooking/recipe site.
maximum 3 lines of text for each recipe.
no pictures
no god fucking awful modern """""slick""""" UI

[Anonymous No.15569326]

>>15566788
> packet taco seasoning
> King Ranch Seasoning
> Kraft Spaghetti
> Campells chicken soup
> Pace picante sauce
Do amerifats really just have recipes that are just mixing up ready made food?

[Anonymous No.15569335]

Where do I find minimalist websites for recipes? Stuff like wikicookbook or the rareseeds.com recipe listings

[Anonymous No.15569341]

>>15558945
Nearly every site has an option to print the recipe. This doesn't include the life story.

You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.15569384]

Why tf doesn’t CK have a wiki or pastebin yet or am I a newfag?

[Anonymous No.15569395]

>>15558990

[Anonymous No.15569410]

>>15569384
/ck/ pastebin consists entirely of tendie and childish recipes.

[Anonymous No.15569448]

>>15569384
too many shills with their own profound recipe from congressmen and lobbyists who keep their shill foods relevant and alive to the general public. almost better to just starve to death at this point